Mists of Pandaria Legendary Cape Guide: Updated for 5.4

We've updated our guide to Mists of Pandaria's legendary questline with details on the cape rewards coming in Patch 5.4 and catch-up mechanisms!

Overview

All level 90 players in a raid can work on the legendary questline at the same time. it's been purposely designed to cut down on loot drama and the feeling that one person in your raid ends up overpowered.

This legendary series spans the expansion, with more elaborate rewards each tier.

You must also defeat four new world bosses, the celestials, in La via dell'Imperatore. Their PTR dungeon journals are below. These bosses drop ilvl 553 Tier 16 gloves and legs, as well as Season 14 PvP accessories, legs, and gloves. They spawn in a set order, and if you wipe, the next Celestial will spawn so you'll have to wait a while.

Chi-Ji, The Red Crane

The trial of Chi-Ji is a test of hope. Uncertain of the future of his people, Emperor Shaohao sought out the great Red Crane. The Great Crane challenged Shaohao to find the hope within himself, and cast off his uncertainty. Once the Sha of Doubt was vanquished, the Emperor became a beacon of hope for his people. To pass the trial of the Crane, warriors must believe in hope, even in the darkest of days.

Yu'lon, The Jade Serpent

The trial of Yu'lon is a test of wisdom and faith. With omens of a bleak future floating through his mind, Emperor Shaohao climbed to the summit of Mount Neverest to seek the council of the Jade Serpent. Yu'lon urged Shaohao to cast off the dark emotions that plagued him, and through his trials, Emperor Shaohao would become one with the land. To pass the trial of the Serpent, warriors must be wise in their choices.

Jadeflame Buffet: Inflicts 30000 Fire damage to all nearby players and increases Fire damage taken by 5% for 1 min. This effect stacks.

Niuzao, The Black Ox

The trial of Niuzao is a test of bravery and fortitude. When Emperor Shaohao was overcome with fear, the Black Ox counseled him to face his fears directly. After a protracted battle with the Sha of Fear, the Emperor emerged victorious. To pass the trial of the Ox, warriors must be resolute in the face of overwhelming danger.

Headbutt: Inflicts 1000000 Physical damage, knocks the player back and removes all threat.

Xuen, The White Tiger

The trial of Xuen is simultaneously a test of strength and a test of restraint. When Xuen gave Emperor Shaohao a 10-foot-pole and asked him to strike one of Xuen's warriors, the Emperor could not land a blow. For without restraint, anger and hatred run wild. To pass the trial of the Tiger, warriors must harness their power, while burying their thoughts of violence.

After reporting back to Wrathion in Una leggenda dei Pandaren, you receive Essenza Senza Tempo dello Stormo Nero which imbues your cape and turns it into a legendary one. At this point, there is also a zone-wide yell in Vale of Eternal Blossoms and the most recent players to complete the quest have their characters displayed by Mogu'shan Palace.

Legendary Cape Information

Vigore di Niuzao: The Endurance of Niuzao fully absorbs the damage of one attack that would normally kill you. This effect has a 2 min cooldown. Does not function for non-Tank-specialized characters.

Essenza di Yu'lon: Your damaging spell casts have a chance to empower you with the Essence of Yu'lon, causing you to hurl jade dragonflame at the target, dealing 1 (+ 200% of Spell power) damage over 4 sec. This damage also affects up to 4 other enemies near the burning target. (Approximately procs per minute)

Spirito di Chi-Ji: Your helpful spells have a chance to grant you Spirit of Chi-Ji, increasing all healing done by 5% and causing all overhealing on players to be redistributed to up to 5 nearby injured friends, for 10 sec. (Approximately 0.58 procs per minute)

Raffica di Xuen: Your damaging attacks have a chance to trigger a Flurry of Xuen, causing you to deal 1 (+ 20% of Attack power) damage to up to 5 enemies in front of you (hunter: current target and up to 4 enemies around them), every 0.3 sec for 3 sec. (Approximately procs per minute).

The legendary capes have spec-specific RPPM data, which you can see by clicking on the radio buttons underneath capes.

Acquiring the legendary cape will also give players access to Ordos, a boss across the broken bridge on the Timeless Isle that only players who have completed the questline can fight. Ordos drops ilvl 559 loot, which is consistent with Warforged gear from Siege of Orgrimmar.

Ordos' restriction will be account-wide, so you only need to have gotten the legendary cape on one character to fight him.

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Rogue Perks

If you are a Rogue who has completed or worked on Zanne del Progenitore, you get some fun flavor perks. Here are the Rogue-only dialogue options, from Whiterock's comment, when you initially speak to Wrathion:

The reward is a Occhio del Principe Nero for your weapon. This works on both Tier 14 and Tier 15 weapons, but does not work on heroic scenario or Assedio di Orgrimmar weapons. This functions as a prismatic socket, so any non-legendary or meta gem can be socketed in it.

You must interrupt Pazzia or you will die. Clicking on one of the charged anvils interrupts the ability and makes Amalgama di Sha take additional damage for a few seconds. The anvils periodically recharge throughout the fight.

Tempesta di Meteore: The sha summons a deadly meteor storm in the area, causing massive damage to any target who is hit.

Schianto d'Ombra: Fires a missile towards an enemy at range. When this missile lands, it deals 127237 to 142762 Shadow damage to all enemies within 10 yards of that location and 47500 to 52500 Shadow damage to enemies within the area every 2 sec for 20 sec.

At low HP, Wrathion finishes the lance. Click the lance, and then use your special action button Tiro Lancia to kill the Amalgama di Sha.

Many users have left spec-specific tips to completing these challenges on our Benedizione dei Celestiali page. In addition, be sure to pick up Offerte ai Celestiali from August Celestials for a stat boost.In addition to beating one challenge, you must also talk to each Celestial. Their locations are: Xuen - Temple of the White Tiger (Massiccio del Kun-Lai), Niuzao - Temple of the Black Ox (Steppe di Tong Long), Chi-Ji - Temple of the Red Crane (Giungla di Krasarang), and Yu'lon - Temple of the Jade Serpent (Foresta di Giada). For Yu'lon, do not fly into the non-instanced version of the Temple of the Jade Serpent from the east--instead, speak to Wrathion outside the Temple on the bridge, and you will get ported in for a short cut-scene and get quest credit.

Commento di Destruktio

Commento di Viohard

So that's what the Offerte ai Celestiali is for. I can't wait to put my hands on my Legendary-quality cloak. :)

Amazing as always, perculia.

Commento di Punix

on 2013-08-10T12:03:12-05:00

Nice! And thanks :)

Commento di perculia

on 2013-08-10T12:36:58-05:00

Thanks, I've made a note of the hunter proc. If you go to and select the Call Pet 1 checkbox, it will update to the hunter proc as well.

Commento di Amalo4

on 2013-08-10T13:49:18-05:00

The first rewards really need to be usable on SoO weapons. It's pointless that they aren't. Hey here's some rewards you have to go through way too much work to get but you can't use them. Even though these weapons look sha-touched they're not really. And this extra socket, well......there's no space in these hilts.

Commento di AccoSk8

on 2013-08-10T15:54:54-05:00

The first rewards really need to be usable on SoO weapons. It's pointless that they aren't. Hey here's some rewards you have to go through way too much work to get but you can't use them. Even though these weapons look sha-touched they're not really. And this extra socket, well......there's no space in these hilts.

It's not fun to pay 7000 gold (gem) and 1750 gold (add a socket) every time you get a new weapon. You already have to spend thousands of gold for the enchants, reforging, regemming and so on. Add the cost of these gems and you are basically killing the fun of getting a new weapon.

Commento di AkimboYojimbo

on 2013-08-10T17:57:19-05:00

The images for the epic versions of the Tigerfang and Oxhorn cloak appear to be reversed.

Commento di trest

on 2013-08-10T20:56:06-05:00

I wish they would “adjust” the solo scenario (La Forgia dei Fulmini), in Chapter III, to make it slightly less annoying. I’m not at all suggesting to nerf it or otherwise make it easy - just alleviate the annoying parts. I want hard and fun, not hard and annoying.

The scenario end boss (Amalgama di Sha) is certainly a contender for worst/most-annoying fight in the history of WoW (based on the numerous comments I’ve seen from others who’ve tried, and infrequently finished, the fight). You are basically guaranteed to die many times (which, in and of itself, is not inherently problematic - it should be a challenging fight).

Annoyances:

It is one of the most cluttered fight spaces ever in the game. The slightest movement can cause sudden significant camera shifts. This is exacerbated by the unusually high amount of movement required (especially with Tempesta di Meteore where you really need to see what’s happening while running around to avoid getting hit). Could there be a way to alleviate that (not necessarily removing ground obstacles which are part of the fight, but adjusting the sight-lines so that the camera moves are not quite so awful in there?

You can’t leave the scenario (which you might have to do if you don’t have a way to repair in the instance, or just run out of play time that day) without having to restart and go through all the stuff leading up to that boss again. I would like them to do something like make the boss fight (and maybe the lead-up fight in the same room) a separate scenario, or provide a way to reenter the scenario and skip the parts already completed.

The fight seems (based on my own experiences, and those of others I’ve read online) harder for melee dps (like my main, unfortunately) than other roles. I don’t have a suggestion for how to fix this without nerfing the fight a bit - there might not be a way to fix it.

Commento di Wirxaw

Mm... My DK was doing it in frost offspec(as I considered using blood for solo scenario an exploit), and I think I got it down on 2nd try, because I was just too slow\\stupid to figure what and how on the first try. That isn't an insult, nor showing off, but aside from the fact that the fight required you to push some cooldowns and manage your health - it's not that great of a challenge. More than daily miniboss quest, where you are granted a buff to do everything for you, but not something as bad as Brawler's rank 7(meaning that... Orbed Curator boss)(and not even remotely close to rank 8). I don't remember the fight, but you just nuke stuff, get healed by Algalon-ish buddy, use something limited to stun the Amalgamation... and just keep yourself alive. If not for profession-perks\\consumables, 510ilvl should do the trick just fine, perhaps 495+ is doable.Doubt that it needs particular attention, especially in light of the new content, which makes 500ilvl a new 463.

And question: what are these wings, so cheesily shown in news thumbnail and first picture? The procs from new cloaks? I hope it's not new tier - damn Tyrael's wings are too much even for WoW. When I first looked at thumbnail, I hoped there would be... a new "acquireable" version of Tyrael, somehow tied to all this Wrathion lore. Both glad and disappointed that it isn't the thing.

Commento di Tuckletuts

on 2013-08-10T23:48:36-05:00

I can't see why Blizzard has chosen to continue with random chance "special" items like Thunderforged and Warforged. They are a terrible idea, and lead to loot balancing issues, especially since Tier items cannot be Thunder/Warforged. There's also inconsistent drop rates between 10m and 25m. I just don't understand why they're in the game at all. If they wanted to give SOME items a higher iLevel, have those items drop from the last boss or two, similarly to how it worked in DS and how it works for Ra-den now. Please Blizzard, there is already enough rng in this game, we don't need more, and it isn't a motivating factor to continue raiding.

Commento di perculia

on 2013-08-11T10:49:17-05:00

They are the visual cape procs--several users have completed them on the PTR and have uploaded pictures of the proc.

Commento di felhunter

on 2013-08-11T11:03:51-05:00

im a bit dissapointed the sha touched gem isnt going to be usefull in 5.4

i got mine in 5.0, then i was the only one in our guild that never ever saw a sha touched weapon drop for him. im still carrying it with me in the hope it might become usefull once agian. but no :(

as for the eye not being useable on SoO weapons, shame but atleast i dnt have too dish out another 1750g every time a new weapon upgrade drops.

Commento di draconero

on 2013-08-11T12:30:42-05:00

it's good that all bosses now drop the various sigil/rune/secret. my only problem with the legendary questline and various alt is the prince reputation that needs hours of grinding outside of the raid. I got exalted with main... don't want to do it with all the others...

Commento di Vertixio

on 2013-08-11T15:57:42-05:00

...aded in 5.3, is an...you forget one letter :>

Commento di Saegaron

on 2013-08-11T16:26:33-05:00

The scenario was complete hell to do on my holy paladin. Beacon of Light was completely useless in there as well as Light of Dawn as the NPC aren't in your "party" but are in your "instance group" I did finish it after adjusting some talents. I had to use Glyph of Denounce and Glyph of Holy Shock. It was a complete headache to finish it!

Commento di snipervictim

on 2013-08-12T04:39:49-05:00

I have done the cape quest on all 3 of my 90s the hardest for me was my lock because he cant move as fast as my mage but as of Sunday no problem they nerfed it and the bloods slower .gl all it should be a breeze now.

Commento di whoelsen

on 2013-08-12T09:54:48-05:00

Any body know's if the Legendary Cape get's downgraded in pvp ? :)

Commento di Amalore

on 2013-08-13T13:12:36-05:00

Yall need to fix yalls info that the extra socket wont work on heroic senerio weapons. My mage had a heroic senerio weapon and the extra socket did work on it so the info that the extra socket wont work on heroic senerio weapons is wrong.

Commento di greycraig

on 2013-08-13T14:33:14-05:00

i guess its cool they made the "catch-up" happen, but makes all that doing this before part seem pointless. "legendary cloaks for everyone!"